The Path

Hafiz once wrote:

“That is what greatness does: kindly leaves a shelter for us to gather under, where more nourishment can be offered to all things. Strange the way my shadow began to fall. I was standing in a field helping the dawn appear, and when its body, the sun, was fully lifted into the sky I was amazed to see my shadow in front of me as I faced that luminous candle we all know.”